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raize308 OP t1_ja6qsak wrote

Reply to comment by BodAlmighty in Cats spend the majority of their lives in their dreams rather than in real life due to them sleeping ~16 hours a day by raize308

Don't all animals have an internal clock consisting of 24 hours? I feel like that'd be true if they slept for entire days but idk

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BodAlmighty t1_ja6z9by wrote

I wouldn't think so, we humans came up with the hour, minute, second etc.

Plus, with the average lifespan of cats/dogs and that - even larger cats for instance being much shorter than ours, they reach 'adulthood' after around a year so their metabolism affects their passage of time... (like how we say "He's 7 in dog years")

A tortoise or a parrot can live for over 200 years on average so our 'year' may only feel like two months to them... And of course some animals do sleep for entire days through their lifespan, Bears, Hedgehogs etc hibernate through the winter, and Cicadas 'sleep' for 17 years so imagine a 'day' for them! 😀

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raize308 OP t1_ja71ahj wrote

Yeye but we humans do have the circadian rhythm which is also the reason why we can wake up at almost exactly the same time every day given we have a regular sleep schedule

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